“When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.” — E. W. Howe, Country Town Sayings
Tag: time
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“He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.” — Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux
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“The more closely we observe the present moment, the more amorphous it becomes. It vanishes as we reach out to touch it, transforming into the next moment, and the next …” — Annaka Harris, “What Is Time?,” Nautilus (2022-05-12)
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“The medium of music is time, how if time stopped, a painting would exist unchanged but music would vanish, like a wave without an ocean.” — Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
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“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.” — Martin Amis, London Fields
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“There is never enough time to do what you really don’t want to do.” — David Allen, Twitter (2009-12-02)
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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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“You are not the same person you were yesterday.” — Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
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“If you have no way to mark the hours, no variance in the days, time will open its mouth and swallow you.” — Laura van den Berg, Find Me
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“All time is time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five